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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sunday brought the crazy week's climax. In many languages a German broadcast announced that a Finnish delegation had been in Moscow talking peace ever since Wednesday. An unnamed Finnish Army officer observed: "Now that they are trying to drag this war down to the level of European politics, there can be but little hope for a clear decision." In greatest secrecy, a plane had taken off from Helsinki, headed for Stockholm, stopped there briefly, set out again, and gone straight across Latvia to Moscow. Its passengers were an extraordinary crew...
According to Mr. Williams, the Soviet leaders of today are "doped by their own propaganda" and the Kremlin "has brought the level of intelligence of all Russia down to its own. . . . The Kremlin actually was surprised and deeply resentful of the fact that the Finns shot at them. . . . The Slav intellect can't understand anyone fighting for such an abstract thing as freedom. . . . The trouble with Russia is that it's large but not great. The myth of the mighty Red Army has been shattered and Stalin can never regain the lost prestige of the Finnish debacle...
Above this level come serious poems about people and places, in which Auden states his admirations and aversions, hopes and fears. The potpourri is tied together more by constant verbal virtuosity than by any underlying single-mindedness. Auden admires a hand-picked selection of the Great-his criticisms of them are acute, his praise of them generally mystagogic; he admires Love-but writes no loving poem; socially, he is a run-of-the-parlor pink-but he is a nearly bloody hater of the upper-class English "old gang." By birth Auden belongs with them; and he sees a worm...
Seven of the Harvard squad are between five feet ten and six feet, with two above and one below that level. Charley Lutz, Bill Webber, Franny Simpson, Bud Finegan, Ed Buckley, Joe Romano, and Bob James all stand just under an even six feet, while Chet Legg is about five nine and Sam White and Ed Rothschild...
Ingley, Erickson, and Cobb are all consistent high scorers for the Blue, with Stevens and Seelbach not far behind. In the League ratings, the first three stand about on a par with Lutz and Buckley; Stevens and Seelbach are on the same level with Webber, Romano, and Finegan...